{"id":625772,"date":"2026-04-24T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:17:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-delivers-alternative-correspondents-dinner-roast-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625772\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Delivers “Alternative” Correspondents’ Dinner Roast Of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> delivered his own alternative to the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner comedy monologue, with scathing jokes about Donald Trump<\/a>, First Lady Melania and the president\u2019s White House team.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday (watch it below), Kimmel noted that Trump is attending the dinner this weekend for the first time as president. But the WHCA has chosen a mentalist, Oz Pearlman, to serve as a featured entertainer, rather than a comedian as in past years. Kimmel himself entertained at the dinner in 2012.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo instead, Kimmel presented his own schtick, appearing on a mock set at the Washington Hilton with clips of the president and others in the crowd, some looking none too happy. <\/p>\n

\n\tA few examples:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ll get you all dressed up in formal wear, dresses, tuxedos. I haven\u2019t seen this much black since every page of the Trump Epstein files.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have fun tonight, and I\u2019m happy you decided to stay, Mr. President. And don\u2019t worry if we bruise your ego, it\u2019ll only make your hands look less disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the unfortunate event that our president has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor in the house? I\u2019m sorry. I mean, do we have a Jesus in the house? I always confuse them, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI get why you think you\u2019re Jesus. This guy, every time he walks into a room, people say, Christ, he\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPresident Trump has accomplished so much during his second term. He passed new incentives for oil and gas. He put the brakes on solar and wind. That will be your legacy, sir, breaking wind and passing gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe president didn\u2019t want me to tell any jokes about him tonight, but he also didn\u2019t want to pay me $130,000 to shut up.\u201d That was a reference to the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Those payments were at the heart of Trump\u2019s criminal conviction on New York state charges in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel also made jokes about Melania Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs you\u2019re all aware, Melania is a movie star now. Her documentary had a score of 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website named after her husband\u2019s testicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOh, by the way, before we go any further, Melania, this is Donald. Donald, this is Melania. That was my impression of Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d (Earlier this month, the First Lady summoned the news media as she made a statement denying rumors that Epstein, the convicted sex offender, introduced her to her future husband.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there were jokes about others, including Stephen Miller, Trump\u2019s senior adviser.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStephen Miller is so racist. The reason he went bald is because his hair was black. Steven Miller puts the cist in white supremacist. He\u2019s like if baby Hitler traveled in time to kill us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen Kimmel joked about Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPete\u2019s hair has more oil in it right now than the Strait of Hormuz. And don\u2019t worry about the strait. Pete has a plan. I know that for a fact. His wife accidentally butt texted the plans to me. Later on, Pete\u2019s gonna read us a Bible passage from Pulp Fiction, so stick around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to other figures like Vice President JD Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., Kimmel riffed on Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m almost out of time. Brendan Carr has given me the light. Brendan Carr is the head of the FCC. Back in September, he tried to get my affiliates to throw me off the air. He said we could do this \u2018the easy way or the hard way.\u2019 Same thing he said to Lindsey Graham, 10 minutes ago in the all-gender restroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel said that mentalist Pearlman will be a guest on his show Monday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump last attended the dinner in 2015, just before he launched his presidential campaign. But his most memorable appearance at the dinner was four years earlier, when he was still the star of Celebrity Apprentice yet was weighing a bid for the White House. That night, he was the butt of jokes from the featured entertainer, Seth Meyers, and from President Barack Obama. Captured by the C-SPAN cameras, Trump was hardly laughing along and looked none too happy.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeyers quipped that night, \u201cDonald Trump\u00a0has been\u00a0saying\u00a0that he\u2019ll run\u00a0for president as a\u00a0Republican, which is surprising, since\u00a0I\u00a0just assumed he\u00a0was\u00a0running\u00a0as a joke.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel delivered his own alternative to the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner comedy monologue, with scathing jokes about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,1376,28755,75,4592,7180,234664,234665],"class_list":{"0":"post-625772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-electionline","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-late-night-tv","15":"tag-white-house-correspondents-association","16":"tag-white-house-correspondents-dinner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}